Choice architecture

Everybody wants to be more powerful, but what if you were given the power to decide whether someone lives or dies? In the dictionary, power is defined as the ability to do something or act in a particular way. It can be gained through a variety of sources such as, money or race, but one of the main sources of power we all share in common, roots from the decisions we make. Whether we know it or not, each decision we make can affect the lives around us. This could be seen throughout the stories,…

How to live and die in John Green’s Looking for Alaska "There are two primary choices in life; to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them” (Denis Waitley). The novel Looking for Alaska by John Green is about a formerly lonely boy, Miles also known as Pudge, who is the protagonist and his ultimate goal is to seek a Great Perhaps. He arrives at Culver Creek Boarding School where he is immediately swept away and pulled into a fantasy by the antagonist,…

There comes a point in life where we are bound to take crucial decisions in order to move forward. Some choices would prove to be exactly what we were hoping for and others will make us wonder what would have happened if we had taken the other available path. Robert Frost presents this enigma on his poem ‘The Road Not Taken’. He most chose between two paths and he is conflicted about not being able to “travel both.” He looks at one road until it disappears from his sight, yet he decides to…

‘The bush was something that was uniquely Australian and very different to the European landscapes familiar to many new immigrants. The bush was revered as a source of national ideals by the likes of Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson.’(Australian Government, n.d.). In the book walking the boundaries by Jackie French. French provides loads of adjectives, similes and metaphors to give the reader a insight of Martin’s journey around the boundaries of his great grandfather’s land. And how martins mind…

like dancing at first, but Ms. Martin was the one who, “... really sold dance to [him] as a way of life.” In his generation, boys were ridiculed and judged for doing something as “feminine” as dancing. Mr. Lynskey didn’t let some bullies affect his choice to pursue dancing, though. He decided not to add more fuel to the flames and ignored them. Mr. Lynskey’s college experience was a time of…

behind Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" at first glance. The story is an assertion of the vital essence of the choices one must make in life's journey and includes an ironic twist of the tendency to struggle with making said choices in life. Frost employs the metaphor of two roads whilst inventing a negative tone through the use of diction and pathos to express the theme that one's choices in life are not always as clean-cut and concrete as other's might think and that in reality they are…

the medical care for them. Steve Butler is affected by Roger’s decisions as Roger cheated him out of a good investment. Steve’s assistant may lose his/her job for sending the wrong document to Roger. Roger’s choices can affect Solodor Pharmaceutical (SP) in that if he makes right choices, they will continue to operate and potentially help sick people but if he makes the wrong ones, it could not only hurt their reputation but force the company to close its doors which would affect the…

opposes each other, in the story Macbeth is told that he will fulfill a prophecy by some witches that. People believe that fate does not control your life, people each live to do what they want in life. This freedom is called free will. Macbeth had that choice to do what he wanted. He chose the path to be a king, which led him to problems. He then had to make a lot of decisions that he did, which was free will. Macbeth was told to do many things in the story by his wife. He was debating either…

my identity?” The cold truth is, we don’t. Identities are influenced by many factors, but two common factors are media and our very own DNA. These both have a very large impact on who we actually are as a person. One reason why identity is not a choice is because our very DNA influences us greatly. Recently, scientists have been doing research on the “shift in the understanding of inheritance.” In the article, “Do you choose your identity or is it chosen for you?” by Dana Mrkich,…

genuinely care much about the thriving of its local industries. It is however, true that the Canadian government in their bid to protect the Canadian culture by encouraging local contents may have been perceived as been rigid without giving the people choice to choose what they want to read or where to advertise however, I think the passion to preserve the Canadian culture was more important in this regard. To a very large extent the Canadian government were force to seek protection for its…